Revenue is vanity, profit sanity, but is cash king?

The future has a habit of creeping up on us. Recently, within the space of 48 hours, I’d managed to pay a gas bill, visit the dentist, settle with the butcher and go to the pub (twice) without ever handing over any cash. It’s odd how quickly things become commonplace, even for those of us old enough to remember how futuristic ATMs seemed when they first appeared. Not that long ago, the idea of a cashless society would have seemed a wholly unlikely prospect, but take the time to tally how much of your monthly spend is completed via electronic transfer and you would probably be surprised.